My 2 cents: I think this was always going to be the big release of the year but since the entire world is in lockdown and has been since March, they realised that when this thing comes out the entire world is going to boot it up simultaneously with the express intention of losing themselves in Night City for the…

Why is there a picture of West and not James? I had to Google her because the name sounded familiar but I couldn’t think what she looked like. It’s just weird, even for a “supposedly feminist website.”

I personally got about four paragraphs in before I realized with cold certainty that I couldn’t possibly care less. Can’t believe anyone else does.

How did they take it when Chapelle did it with the blind black character that’s a strident member of the KKK? Oh right, I remember, it’s usually pointed to as one of the great comedy sketches ever written and performed.

Love JRPGs especially FFX, but since Mass Effect I can’t pretend that that I hold JRPGs in the same class as a Witcher 3 or that there’s a JRPG on deck that I’m looking forward to as much as a Cyberpunk or a new Elder Scrolls, or god forbid a new Mass Effect in the vein of the first three. 

Harron, I don’t know how they got a writer of your talent to cover the weekends, but whatever they’re paying you isn’t enough.

There are people getting rid of their consoles a month before Cyberpunk comes out? Huh. Okay, I guess. 

In what world does Outer Wilds even compete with XCOM 2?

She’s going to get a cut. A huge one. Asking the question is the only moral ambiguity happening on this page.

Look at this thread. Both versions of this story are filled with comments from people who want to know that she isn’t profiting from this “before they buy the game.” That’s not moral strength in the face of unacceptable behaviour. That’s whining and bitching from people with Gryffindor scarves and wands, hardcover…

She’s definitely a transphobe. That being said, what are you all hoping for? Are you seriously imagining a scenario where she licenses a multi-million dollar video game of her IP and somehow not get paid? Sack up. Either you say goodbye to Hogwarts in whatever form and actually stop buying the shit, or don’t, and stop…

You can’t have it both ways. This is ridiculous. If you want to boycott Rowling then Harry Potter goes too. Good grief. I intensely dislike Orson Scott card but Ender’s Game is a good book. Rumor is that Picasso was a racist sexist prick too. Boycott Rowling. Go for it. But don’t pretend that Hogwarts doesn’t leave…

I’ll probably wait until CD Projekt Red’s follow up to Cyberpunk to upgrade. So sometime in 2027 I’d imagine. Or maybe the next Elder Scrolls (2030?) A new Mass Effect that’s good (2050?)

I hope you really are a griefer dick online and this isn’t just for clicks. I’d prefer to think you’re kind of an asshole than a disingenuous clickbait scumbag.

The heightened sense of justice is absolutely true and you’re exactly right about the age range. 

I assume you never read anything Stephen, Kirk, Owen, Tina, Luke, Jason or Patricia wrote in their prime. You just trashed Kotaku at an entire level of magnitude above anything I wrote. 5000-8000 words on the impact of the dating life of a cam girl is the hill you want to die on? I can’t fight this. Enjoy, I guess.

A platform used to advertise and monetize video games is actually video games now? So when I’m disappointed that no writers here are willing or able to engage in a discussion in how narrative, gameplay, environment and theme, join to create a unique experience I’m just being sore? Or old? I guess we can agree to disagr…

Maybe I’m just old. I keep coming here expecting an interesting article about video games, and this fucking guy won’t stop writing about 18 year old cam girls. 

Are there really no video games to write about? God, do you remember all the post-modernist essays about MGS2? Remember when Kirk Hamilton spent six months writing about Last of Us? Jesus, I still constantly complain when Totillo passes off an Assassin’s Creed review to ... whoever. Who in the wild world of sports…

On a click thru? Let’s not. Fortunately one of the commenters was kind enough to print the list since ... let’s not with the click thru. COD4:Modern Warfare by a country mile. The flashback Chernobyl-fight-off-the-enemy-with-a crippled-captain-don’t-forget-to-lay-some-mines-first-before-crouching-by-an-abandoned-ferris…